Twilight rushed around the library, levitating multiple books and and putting them in their right place. She had only been gone for three weeks finishing up some business in Canterlot, and had decided to come home a little early to surprise her friends. Though upon arriving at the library she immediately noticed the books lying around, and decided to fix things up. She knew Spike tried his best to keep everything organized how she liked, but she preferred doing it herself to make sure everything is where it needs to be. She placed the last book and looked around the library, "There, all done," Twilight glanced at the clock, "and with time to spare, the girls don't meet at Sugarcube Corner for another hour." she turned as she heard a knock at the door. Before opening the door she checked through the window to make sure it wasn't one of her friends, then opened the door.

"Hi Twilight!" the three outside said in sync, with large smiles and beaming eyes.

"Hi girls, how did you know I was here?" the purple alicorn asked.

"We saw you through you through the window." Apple Bloom said.

"And decided to come say hi!" Sweetie Belle added.

"But we wanted to ask you something too!" Scootaloo finished as the three smiled bigger.

Twilight looked back at the clock, she would probably have enough time to help with what it was they needed. Though she was worried one of her friends would see her and ruin the surprise, "What do you girls need help with?' The three girls looked at each other before Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo pushed Apple Bloom forward as they both took a step back.

"Uh, well, ya see we were wondering how good ya are with, uh, cleaning spells." Apple Bloom said with a big smile as her friends nodded in agreement.

"Cleaning spells? Why do you need cleaning spells?" Twilight asked. This time Apple Bloom stepped back and shoved Scootaloo forward.

"Well, uh, we kinda were messing around with some fireworks near the abandoned cabin, but things didn't really go as planned." Scootaloo added as she stepped back with the others.

"I still don't see why you need cleaning spells if you were playing with fireworks, if the blast charred something that would need a different kind of spell to fix it." Twilight said. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo looked to Sweetie Belle, who sighed and stepped forward.

"We need cleaning spells to clean up the mess the fireworks made...when they...went off." Sweetie Belle finished before backing up.

"What kind of mess are we talking about? Just old firework remains or something else?" Twilight levitated some books toward her and began skimming the pages looking for a simple clean up spell.

"Well, not really just firework remains." Apple Bloom stated.

"Ya, it's just a little bigger than that." Scootaloo said.

"Bigger how?" Twilight continued looking through different books.

"The building...kinda...blew up." Sweetie Belle said slowly as she looked up at Twilight with a sheepish smile all three friends shared. Twilight stopped looking through the books and looked at the three girls in front of her.

"You blew up...a building...with fireworks!?" she looked from the three girls to the clock, about ten minutes had passed, she would have to hurry and get this over with, "You know what, I don't wanna know, just lead the way."

"It's not far, it's the last building in town before the path to Sweet Apple Acres." Apple Bloom said as the four started to trot away from the library. Sweet Apple Acres! I hope Applejack doesn't have any selling to do in town, I'll have to keep an eye out for her and the others on the way over, Twilight thought as she followed the three younger mares. While walking through town Twilight explained why she didn't want her friends to see, and ask them to keep an eye out for her five friends.

"Don't worry Twilight! We're on the case!" Scootaloo looked to her friends and they all leaned in and said in sync, "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS FRIEND EVADERS!"

"Girls!" Twilight looked around, making sure none of her friends had heard, "Not so loud!"

"Sorry Twilight," Apple Bloom said as she turned to Scootaloo, "See? I told you nothings changed." she said to the orange pegasus, who in turn looked and smiled at their small group of close friends. They continued on their way until they finally came across the path that led up to Sweet Apple Acres, but instead of continuing forward the three girls turned a little ways out and followed a beaten down dirt path. When Twilight came across the remains of the old cabin, she just stood there and gaped. The space around the cabin had been blasted, the cabin was in ruins, and the surrounding vegetation was charred. Her mouth continued to slowly open and close, as she tried to find the words to express what she was seeing. When she turned to look to the girls they had those large smiles they had been wearing when they came up to her door.

"So do ya think ya can fix it?" Apple Bloom looked around the remains with that forced smile on her face.

"Well," Twilight slowly took in her surroundings, she could get rid of all the debris with just a teleportation spell to transport it to the Ponyville Scrapyard, but the surrounding forest would have to be healed with a rejuvenation spell of some sort, "I should be able to fix this up, but I need you girls to give me some space and stay quiet." she watched as all three heads nodded in agreement then turned towards the ruins. She had to be slightly careful when using teleportation spells, because after she and her friends had defeated Tirek, all magic had been returned to its current host from when it was taken from them. So this meant that all the alicorn magic had returned to her, meaning the magic had to be returned to its rightful owners manually. Though when she had returned the magic, some of the princesses magic had begun to mix in with hers, so to avoid accidentally taking some of her magic they left the magic that had already begun to fuse with hers with Twilight. So she always felt slightly more powerful in the day, as to being more calm and peaceful in the dark of night, and being able to find the love to help others in need.

Sweetie Belle watched as the purple alicorn began to surround the wreckage in a violet aura and close her eyes in concentration. She herself had never been the best at magic, she could do the simplicity such as levitation, though never to the extant of her sister, and small tricks she had learned when they had always been visiting the library for Twilight Time. Rarity anf Twilight always told her that she had great power that she just needed to unlock within herself, but after years went by with countless failures she suddenly got into a massive argument with her sister about her magic abilities.

That was two years ago.

Things between her and her sister had been constantly going down hill and sure there were times when they were nice to each other, but it wouldn't take long for things to bounce right back to their previous state. Why can't I be good as magic as others are? What's wrong with me? Did I do something wrong? Was it because of some kind of childhood experience? Was I never meant to be a unicorn? Is this some kind of punishment from the world? I DON"T UNDERSTAND WHY?! She turned as she felt a hoof tap her, and was greeted by her friend's concerned faces. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo both looked at each other before one of them spook.

"Hey Sweetie Belle, are you okay?"

"Yea, are ya okay?"

Sweetie Belle looked at her friends, and put up a somewhat real smile. She may be left out when it came to magic, but she always felt so lucky to have the best friends anypony could ask for, "Ya I'm fine, just a little tired." she walked away before finally laying down in a patch off grass that wasn't as charred as the rest. They're still watching me, she hugged herself into a tighter ball, they don't understand how I'm feeling.

Apple Bloom started to walk after Sweetie Belle, but was stopped when Scootaloo put up a wing to stop her, "I think she wants to be alone right now, Apple Bloom."

"Well, if ya think that's best fer her, I guess we should help Twilight." Both walked over to a medium sized pile of debris, apparently Twilight was teleporting the remains in sections instead of one big chunk.

"Wait a second," Scootaloo mumbled as she started moving away some of the wood, revealing a large, bright blue and red firework that was mostly in tact, "Did this one never go off?"

"We probably shouldn't mess with that Scoots."

Scootaloo looked at her curiously, "Why not?"

"Well fer one there's smoke coming out of it, so even though it never went off doesn't mean it won't go off now."

"Pfft, Apple Bloom if it didn't go off with the others then it's obviously a dud."

"But what if-"

"Besides even if it's a dud it probably wouldn't be safe so it to come in contact with magic, so we gotta move it."

"But what- what about- maybe we-"

"Apple Bloom it's a firework not a bomb."

"This clearing looks like it was hit with a bomb!"

"Come on Apple Bloom," Scootaloo picked up the firework with one of her wings, "We'll just get this out of Twilight's way for now, then ask her about it later." They slowly walked into the forest, with Apple Bloom always a safe distance away from the firework carrying pegasus. Scootaloo rolled her eyes, "We'll just leave it next to this rock, it's the closest to the river so we can remember where it is," while putting it down she largely exaggerated with her movements, acting like she was dealing with a dangerous explosive.

"Ya that's really funny Scoots." Apple Bloom said with a deadpan expression.

Scootaloo laughed as she stood back up, "I know right!" she continued laughing as the yellow earth pony playfully shoved her, and she shoved back. They continued with this until they reached the clearing again, then quieted down to not disturb Twilight who had moved on to her third section to teleport away.

Apple Bloom look over to the spot where Sweetie Bell had went to lie down, "Hey Scoots?"

The pegasus looked over, "Ya?"

"Did Sweetie Belle go home?"

It was only now that Scootaloo realized Sweetie Belle was no longer lying down, "I guess she did, I wonder what was bugging her."

Sweetie Belle kicked another rock, she hadn't felt like laying down so decided to take a walk. Maybe the river will help me calm down, she always enjoyed the tranquility of the small river that was close to the cabin. She felt bad for not telling her friends where she was going, but she knew they would ask questions. Maybe I should just talk to them, if anything-OOF she fell as her hoof collided with something hard and she face planted in to the grass.Well my day just keeps getting worse doesn't it!, she looked behind her to see what she had tripped on, stupid stump. But at least I made it to the river, she picked herself and started towards the river, when something bright stood out from the natural soft scenery. She concentrated on her horn and could feel as her magic started flowing, and a light green aura appeared around the foreign object.

"How'd this get over here?" She picked up the large, brightly colored firework keeping it secured in her aura. I'm pretty sure this is the one Scootaloo was bragging about, but why is it over here?. She turned to start heading to the clearing when she started seeing sparks come off her horn, great, now it's on the fritz again. She tried to get her magic stable again before she kept going, but she continued to hear small sparks. When she checked her horn it everything seemed fine, but then a scent of smoke reached her. It was now that her eyes traveled to what she was holding in her magic. The large firework was suddenly lit, but it started being bent out of shape as small pops were heard from within.

I'm telling you guys this baby's gonna be huge!

Are you sure this is safe Scoots?

Not really, but it looks AWESOME!

I don't think this is really a safe idea Scootaloo

Come on guys! This is gonna be the best firework ever, it filled with the best explosives for fireworks!

Oh no,Sweetie Belle quickly trotted in place, looking from left to right. Then she just closed her eyes tight, and just threw it away from her. She slowly opened her eyes, and it was now she realized which direction she threw it in.

"TWILIGHT!"

"TWILIGHT, LOOK OUT!"

Oh no!she started running towards the clearing when a sudden explosion of color and noise erupted from in front of her, and a surprised scream rang out.

"Well do you think Rumble likes me, I mean, I caught him staring at me earlier when we were racing to Sweetie Belle's place."

"Scoots you would 'ave to be the one he likes, I mean who else would he go for?"

"Well I saw him talking to Silver Spoon yesterday, and they were laughing...maybe he likes her."

"Are ya insane?! There is no way he likes her! He knows how mean she and Diamond are."

"Well maybe he got on good terms with her and maybe he, oh tell me that's not what I think it is." They both looked over as they saw a bright projectile heading their way, it hit the ground rolled slowly until it came to a stop next to Twilight's hoof. They stood up and started walking towards Twilight, until Scootaloo saw the quickly burning fuse.

"Apple Bloom it's lit!"

"I thought you said it was a dud!"

"I thought it was!"

"TWILIGHT!"

"TWILIGHT, LOOK OUT!"

Twilight turned towards the girls, her horn still lit with magic. When the firework went off, she screamed and her magic suddenly went off in random burst around her as she slowly levitated off the ground. Her body started jerking as she tried to get her magic back in check, and grimaced as she felt the pain pounding at the base of her horn. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo jumped back as they felt themselves being pulled towards Twilight as air rushed past them, and ran to avoid the magic blast that were still firing at them.

"What's going on!!" Scootaloo shouted over the wind.

"I don't know!! I think the firework surprised her!!" they both watched as Twilight's body went slack, with the air around her starting to shimmer with a dark black aura, and as she slowly opened her eyes.

To reveal pure white, glowing, empty sockets.

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Author's Note

So I guess I have to explain why I'm finally uploading this four days after what I said I , and all I can say is I was lazy but it's done now and I left the images that I feel the CMC would look like in this, but disregard the cutimarks. Oh and all the art credit goes to the original owners

Apple Bloom http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/150/i/2012/175/2/a/apple_bloom__the_later_years_by_kraysee-d54o6an.png

Scootaloo http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/119/e/5/harmony_crusaders__scootaloo_by_schwarzekatze4-d63jg4y.png

Sweetie Belle http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/49/cd/20/49cd20d138562b823e7daf9ec358917b.jpg

oh and I'm thinking of changing the main character of Apple Bloom to Sweetie Belle, so what do ya think I should do, because I feel like I can do more character development with her.

And constructive criticism and spell check is appreciated to help improve my writing (because I'm really bad at this stuff myself) but just not total bashing since this this is my first time at trying to write. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and the next one will be out...sometime soon...hopefully